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Nordic countries are regarded as frontrunners in promoting
equality, yet women's experiences on the ground are in many ways at
odds with this rhetoric. Putting the spotlight on the lived
experiences of women working in tech-driven research and innovation
areas in the Nordic countries, this volume explores why, despite
numerous programmes, women continue to constitute a minority in
these sectors. Contributors flesh out the differences and
similarities across different Nordic countries and explore how the
shifts in labour market conditions have impacted on women in
research and innovation. This is an invaluable contribution to
global debates around the mechanisms that maintain gendered
structures in research and innovation, from academia to
biotechnology and IT.
The gender segregated nature of vocational education (VET) has
received little attention in the stratification literature, despite
the well-known consequences of VET for differences in labour market
outcomes, such as job placement, income and access to full-time
employment. This book investigates the institutional contexts of
gender segregation in VET from a comparative perspective, through a
number of cross-national comparisons as well as more in-depth
studies of Canada, Norway, Germany, Australia and Bulgaria.The
various chapters tackle questions about occupational expectations,
gendered pathways to applied fields of study, educational
transitions, feminization of occupations and the relationship
between educational choice and opportunity structures. We discuss
the relationship between institutional contexts and gender-typing
of educational programs, and whether VET system characteristics
make a difference to occupational outcomes across countries. The
book concludes with a chapter on education-to-employment
transitions (based on a large scale comparative project on labour
market entry) assessing the impact of vocational education on
gendered labour market inequalities.
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